Sunday, August 05, 2007

On organ grinder(s) and by-passers

"Voodling can be this or it can be that. (But) it ought not be restricted to being necessarily this or that. . . except perhaps for being both delirious and lucid. . . It seems to me that beyond voodling, there is a mysterious something that has yet to be isolated; beyond automatism, there is intent, beyond the picturesque there is the image, beyond passive consumerism there is deliberate seing, beyond liberated gazes there is the liberated, candid voyeur" Just passing by while shopping for groceries, Sam Renseiw speculated further on the nature of voodling, thus cranking out yet another prosaic voodle from the day's accumulated footage. View the melodic grinding of footage by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 468, 01'38'', 9MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a semi-dramatic truck stop. (Lum # 26 truck stop, 01'00'', 5 MB, Quicktime/mov) Lumiere Rules roll on !.

3 Comments:

I like the way your organ grinder introduces me to the mysterious world of tarp boghandel and odin fisk. I have no idea what these beautifully evocative and exotic phrases mean, but somehow I intuit that fish might be involved.

3 small shops in Nr.Frihavnsgade, my hood, on a quiet satturday morning: a bookshop, a fish monger, and "picnic" a slow food take-away, all covered by scaffolding these days-the organ grinder was standing at the left of trap :-)

There are still quite many organ grinders in Denmark; For instance, it is considered lucky for a couple in Denmark to have a barrel organ playing outside on the morning of their 25th wedding anniversary...this one was just grinding away as he does most saturdays.

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'Pataphysics, an absurdist concept coined by the French writer Alfred Jarry, is a philosophy dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics. Defined as: "The science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments". SPACETWO : PATALAB has functioned in this spirit since 2005 as a dynamic, experimental visual / spatial research laboratory run by SAM RENSEIW. Laced with quotes and useful links, Patalab02 is a forum for subtle, intriguing, complex, enchantingly moving imagery experiments exploring body-space morphologies and other architectures. Enjoy! All posting are videos. Click on the image or the appropriate link in the text to enter. For a view of older videos, see the archive link.